S'cool Tools of the Week: Back-to-School Updates

Aug 24, 2014

IT GETS BETTER AND BETTER: In the midst of sun and summer fun, edtech companies were jazzing up their current products with updated bells and whistles for the new school year! Here are some highlights:

Free! TodaysMeet, a backchanneling tool, now has comment moderation and teacher accounts. If your students veer off on tangents, with the new TodaysMeet account, you can close rooms when conversations get off track, restrict access to rooms, and keep general tabs on all open rooms at once.

Free! Padlet, a collaborative sticky note app, has new features to better support your note-taking and brainstorming needs. There’s Padlet Mini, a Chrome extension for students to use as a collaborative tool for bookmarking and a new grid layout option (no worries, you can switch back and forth between the original stream layout and this grid one).

Free! School text messaging service Remind became available worldwide this summer, with the English version Remind 4.1 offered for free in Apple and Android app stores for teachers, students and parents. And by the way--Remind hit the “top five” category for all free apps on the iOS App Store. Pretty swanky. Rumor has there are more goodies in the works, so stay tuned.

S'cool Tools of the Week: Back-to-School Updates

Aug 24, 2014

IT GETS BETTER AND BETTER: In the midst of sun and summer fun, edtech companies were jazzing up their current products with updated bells and whistles for the new school year! Here are some highlights:

Free! TodaysMeet, a backchanneling tool, now has comment moderation and teacher accounts. If your students veer off on tangents, with the new TodaysMeet account, you can close rooms when conversations get off track, restrict access to rooms, and keep general tabs on all open rooms at once.

Free! Padlet, a collaborative sticky note app, has new features to better support your note-taking and brainstorming needs. There’s Padlet Mini, a Chrome extension for students to use as a collaborative tool for bookmarking and a new grid layout option (no worries, you can switch back and forth between the original stream layout and this grid one).

Free! School text messaging service Remind became available worldwide this summer, with the English version Remind 4.1 offered for free in Apple and Android app stores for teachers, students and parents. And by the way--Remind hit the “top five” category for all free apps on the iOS App Store. Pretty swanky. Rumor has there are more goodies in the works, so stay tuned.